we are happy to present the third edition of our Newsletter Art | Research. On the day after the Rundgang, the "Congratulations"-Section can be found within this sentence: thank you for your efforts, the many presentations and the generously granted insight into the present artistic work, the scientific research, the thinking and the talking as it is lived at the Academy. We extend our gratulations to a very successful Rundgang!

The NEU/NOW Festival is an innovative international platform for talented graduating artists - coming out of Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities across Europe and beyond - to present themselves to a wider international audience within a professional arts context. The Festival features the most excellent new artists and is an international showcase for emerging creative talent.

From the nominated projects, a maximum of 150 projects across all the categories will be presented at www.neunow.eu <blocked::http://www.neunow.eu/> which is widely accessible to arts professionals and public alike. A selection of projects will be presented in the NEU/NOW LIVE Festival 2012 that will take place in July 2012 in Portugal.Deadline 31.01.2012More information www.neunow.eu.......................................................................

Call: PhD in Practice Program

The PhD in Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts is a postgraduate course of combined academic and artistic research. It provides the participants with an opportunity to realize their individual research projects within an environment that encourages all those involved to engage in intensive collaboration. One focal point of the program is the question of the intersections of art and knowledge and of the specific productivity of artistic methods and strategies in terms of the production and analysis of knowledge.

The International Velux Award wants to challenge students of architecture to explore the ever-relevant theme of daylight in architecture and to celebrate excellence in completed study works. The overall theme of the award is "Light of Tomorrow" and open to interpretation in concrete projects in any scale or in conceptual ideas and explorations taking advantage of the students' curiosity, willingness to take risks and thinking out of the box.Deadline 01.03.2012 More information iva.velux.com.......................................................................

CALL: Birgit Jürgenssen Prize 2012

As a teacher and member of various academic boards, Birgit Jürgenssen was closely bound up with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From the early 1980s on, she was involved in establishing an interdisciplinary platform forging a link between painting and photography in the context of the master class of Arnulf Rainer and, subsequently, that of Peter Kogler. Her oeuvre goes far beyond the boundaries of a single medium, comprises such different forms of expression as drawing, performance, photography, video, and objects.The Birgit Jürgenssen Prize amounting to a sum of 3,000 Euros will be awarded in remembrance for the artist annually to a student of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna for her/his achievements in the media sphere, taking works of artistic photography, video and (digital) media art into special consideration.Please submit your portfolio (paper, DVD or CD) with not more than five works until 09.03.2012 at the secretariat of the institute of Fine Arts. ......................................................................

CALL: FemPower 2012

In order to improve the opportunities for women to take leading and significant roles in implementing projects involving corporate research and development, ZIT already carries out funding competitions since 2004. The Call FemPower 2012 is to support gender-relevant R&D projects.

Calls for project proposals for the FWF Program for Development and Appreciation of the Arts (PEEK) and for the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) will be published again in spring 2012. To ensure stress free proposal periods, please talk to us about your project ideas as soon as possible.To arrange consultation times please contact vizerektorin_kunst@akbild.ac.at .......................................................................